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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›
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Glass of Water? Think Twice

Our water treatment plants are not equipped to process human tissue nor necessarily to remove metabolized mifepristone (metabolites) used in abortion pills. Read More ›
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Reading Behe in Prison

With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all. Read More ›
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Bioethicists Push Psychedelics for an “Interesting” Life

The dangers of taking such drugs aside, this essay reflects the reductionism of our time. Read More ›
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Near-Death Experiences Compared to Drug Trips

There is an effort underway to fully naturalize NDEs — that is, to make them something that just happens to the traumatized brain. Read More ›
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Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: The Edge of Evolution

I wonder whether Farina has in fact read Behe’s book for himself, or whether he is relying upon others, such as Nathan Lents. Read More ›
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The Toxic Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology about Men

As Darwinism is discredited scientifically, we should challenge the way it has shaped the secular code for masculinity. Read More ›
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To Restore Faith in Public Health, We Need Truth Commissions

We have seen the erosion of the scientific method through the suppression of dissenting points of view. Read More ›
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Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›
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The New Yorker Takes “A Journey to the Center of Our Cells”

There’s a problem that biologists have long pondered — how do proteins find other proteins within the cell that they are supposed to interact with? Read More ›

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